Individuals are increasingly using Smart Voice Assistants (SVA) to derive functional,
hedonic, and symbolic benefits. SVA adoption is in the nascent stage and we have little …

Trust is considered a prerequisite for consumer interaction with smart voice-interaction
technologies such as smart speakers, although how exactly this develops remains unclear …

There is extensive literature on how expectations and imaginaries about artificial
intelligence (AI) guide media and policy discussions. However, it has not been considered …

Smart home futures predicted and promoted in the discourses and practices of industry
increasingly figure forms of automated decision making (ADM) into existing narratives of …

This Open Access book brings the experiences of automation as part of quotidian life into
focus. It asks how, where and when automated technologies and systems are emerging in …

Smart voice assistants have become popular thanks largely to their default naturalistic
female voices and helpful personae. In this article, we trace changes in robot voices in …

The home is an ever-changing assemblage of technologies that shapes the organisation
and division of housework and supports certain models of what that work entails, who does it …

Digital Voice Assistants (DVAs) like Google Home provide automated news, media and
other content directly into the home. In this article, we outline how Google Home's content …

While data are the backbone for home Internet of Things'(IoT) functional and economic
model, data remain elusive and abstract for home dwellers. In response, we present the Odd …

This study integrates two lines of research: technologies as tools and technologies as social
beings, under the theoretical framework of dynamic systems, to investigate the reciprocal …